ExMyB - Category Head - Marketing & Sales

We are looking for a Category Head to manage a group or category of products for our company. You will be the one responsible for the pricing and overall promotion of a product category to maximize consumer appeal. Relationships with vendors and product range management will also be part of your duties.

Roles and Responsibilities:

- Creating and developing a long-term plan and strategy for development of the category.

- Develop strong working relationships with buying, marketing and merchandising teams.

- End to end management of services i.e. from partner to client.

- P&L owner for the group of category managed.

- Team Management: manage a team of Category Owners, Catalog, and Vendor Acquisition resources. Develop and coach the team.

- Vendor management: vendor sourcing & management, vendor relationship management.

- Customer management: Managing key customer relationships, developing multiple channels, optimizing omni channel sales- through a mix of online and offline sales.

- Marketing: Manages and optimizes marketing spends on the category group. Working closely with the digital marketing team to optimize spends across different digital channels.

- Category Analytics: proficient in analytics to identify growth areas and execute

Preferred Candidate Profile:

- Expertise in category management

- In-depth knowledge of marketing and sales operations and processes

- Hands on experience with analyzing big data and making forecasts

- Analytical and critical thinker

- Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills

Work Experience:

- 6+ years of work experience in roles such as techno-business roles, strategy & operations, consulting, program management etc.

- Astute business sense and analytical ability with great articulation skills.

- Deep industry knowledge of 1-2 B2B industries.

- Prior operations and project/vendor-management experience

Knowledge/ Skills:

- High level of ownership, willingness to set up things from scratch, high emotional intelligence.

- Superior research skills and resourcefulness to draw logical conclusions with often limited information.

- Excellent communication.

- Senior executive presence.

- Good people management skill